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*After Donte DiVincenzo scored 31 points last night to push the Villanova Wildcats to an NCAA basketball championship, an old tweet resurfaced of him using the n-word.
The 2011 tweet read “Ballin on these niggas like I’m derrick rose!”
That’s a line from rapper Meek Mill’s track “Derrick Rose.”
DiVincenzo, who is white, was 14-years-old at the time of the tweet and living in his parents’ Delaware home, according to reports.
When a reporter asked about the tweet on Monday night, just as Donte was being honored as the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, DiVincenzo said he did not recall posting that particular tweet.
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Bro delete your old tweets @DonteDivincenzo ?? pic.twitter.com/LwCJ0wciEa
— College Town™ (@CollegeT0wn) April 3, 2018
While he did acknowledge that the Twitter account in question was his, he was asked who else would have had access to the account back in 2011.
“That’s a good question,” DiVincenzo reportedly replied, and stressed that he had not used his Twitter account since 2016.
The offending tweet disappeared right after the interview and Villanova officials said that DiVincenzo’s account was hacked. But after it was pointed out that a 2018 hack does not impact the existence of a 2011 tweet, Villanova retracted its statement.
Donte Divincenzo aint tweeted a damn thing since 2016…. yall went back 8 years to when the dude was 13…….. and found out he said Nigga….. Yall need to seek help immediately
— Problematic Potts (@Tre_Potts) April 3, 2018
Other tweets also re-emerged—ones in which DiVincenzo used sexually explicit and homophobic language.
I was more interested in this pic.twitter.com/N8D7m7cI8E
— ✨❄Winter J?elstice❄✨ (@JoelCieslak) April 3, 2018
One Twitter user compiled some of Donte’s old tweets and wrote: “Since Donte Divincenzo deactivated his account, I managed to put together all his funny tweets from last night. Here yall go.”
See the series of tweets below:
Since Donte Divincenzo deactivated his account, I managed to put together all his funny tweets from last night. Here yall go pic.twitter.com/GbrLmabeey
— #TankSzn (@DeRxZan) April 3, 2018
Do you care about DiVincenzo’s teenage tweets? And what do his Black or LGBT teammates think?
